Every Little Scrap and Wonder

A Small-Town Childhood

By: Carla Funk

Narrated by: Carla Funk

From an award-winning essayist and acclaimed poet comes this radiant, observant, and warmly funny memoir about childhood, family, and small-town life.

Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, she sat with her mother and brother in the same pew at the Mennonite church while her dad stayed home with his cigarettes and a fridge full of whiskey. In these tender, humorous stories, Funk stitches together the wondrous and the mundane: making snow angels and carrying sacks of potatoes, tossing pig bladders like footballs, and vying for the Christmas pageant spotlight.

Part ode to childhood, part love letter to rural life, Every Little Scrap and Wonder offers an original take on the memories, stories, and traditions we all carry within ourselves, whether we planned to or not.

©2019 Carla Funk (P)2019 Recorded Books

Took me back to childhood

Told with such lovely, gentle wording -this story brought me back to my warmest memories of childhood. I was not Mennonite however, I, too, lived a simple life as a child.